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Merge Two - Create Something New: Merging two poetry forms to create a new form.
Like peanut butter and chocolate, bananas and chocolate, or, in my opinion—anything and chocolate, merging two things together can make something great. Today I’ll share some traditional poetry forms that when merged create new forms.
Terzanelle
Terzanelle = Terza Rima + Villanelle
Brief History
(Taken from my newsletter on the terzanelle December 2006)
The French form, Terzanelle, is the love child of the Italian Terza Rima, and the French Villanelle.
The Terzanelle’s dad, Terza Rima, thought by many to have been invented by Dante, is more a rhyme scheme (of interlocking three-line stanzas or tercets, if you want to get fancy) than a poetry form, but has been confused as a form so much that anyone who used to get upset over this error has probably given up by now. The middle line of the Terza Rima rhymes with 1st and 3rd line of the next stanza – just as it does in the Terzanelle. The meter and length are optional – just as it is in the Terzanelle and the closing stanza can be one line, two lines or a triplet but it must carry out the rhyme scheme.
Terzanelle’s mom, the Villanelle, has nineteen lines consisting of five tercets and a quatrain – just like its child, Terzanelle. Then lines one and three are repeated as lines eighteen and nineteen.
So the Terzanelle, a fixed form like his mom, is nineteen-lines and may have any syllabic length as long as it is the same for each line of the poem. So if you start with five syllables, All nineteen lines must have five syllables each. The Terzanelle consists of six stanzas forming five triplets and a quatrain; also like his mom, but you get two choices in rhyme scheme for the quatrain.
Must Haves
The terzanelle form has very specific must haves for rhyme, lines and repetition.
Terzanelle schematic:
[*KEY*
r = an entire line that will get repeated
r2 = second line with same rhyme (not a repeat of the line – only that line’s rhyme) that will be repeated.
repeated = where the r line is placed
letters indicate the rhyme scheme]
A r
B r
A r2
B
C r
B r repeated
C
D r
C r repeated
D
E r
D r repeated
E
F r
E r repeated
F
A r repeated
F r repeated
A r2 repeated
OR (option 2 – which is closer to the Villanelle)
F
F r repeated
A r repeated
A r2 repeated
Could Haves or What's The Poet's Choice In All This?
--Can have any meter, including no set meter.
--Theme and topic are up to the poet.
Acronet
Acronet = Acrostic + Nonet
Brief History
In 2008 Patricia Farnsworth-Simpson (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/486930.Patricia_Ann_Farnsworth_Simpson) took the acrostic and the nonet stanza and created the acronet.
Must Haves
--First letter of each line spells out a word or phrase, which generally is also the title.
--2 nine-lined stanzas for a total of 18 lines.
--Meter is syllabic in this pattern: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. I have also seen it reversed in this pattern: 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9.
Could Haves or What's The Poet's Choice In All This?
--Can rhyme or not.
--Topic and theme.
Villonnet
Villonnet = Villanelle + Sonnet
Brief History
D. Allen Jenkins is the inventor of the Villonnet. This form is a recent invention—most likely within the last 20 years or less.
Must Haves
--Meter: Iambic pentameter.
--15 lines within four stanzas (three with four lines and ending with one with three lines).
--Rhyme scheme:
[*KEY*
r = an entire line that will get repeated
r2 = second line with same rhyme (not a repeat of the line – only that line’s rhyme) that will be repeated.
repeated = where the r line is placed
letters indicate the rhyme scheme]
Ar OR Ar
B B
B C
Ar2 Ar2
A A
C D
C E
Ar Ar
A A
D F
D G
Ar2 Ar2
Ar repeated Ar repeated
E H
Ar2 repeated Ar2 repeated
Could Haves or What's The Poet's Choice In All This?
--Topic and theme.
SOURCE NOTES:
Drury, John. the po.e.try dic.tion.ar.y. 2nd edition. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2006. Print.
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.
http://the.a.b.c.of.poetry.styles.patthepoet.com/index.html
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/villonnet.html
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